Posted on 12/02/2008 1:34:46 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
With the nominations of Clinton as Secretary of State and Rice as United Nations Ambassador, Obama’s global agenda is becoming clear. He wants to dramatically expand the power of the U.N., a corrupt global institution that is infested with spies for foreign and hostile interests. Obama’s record in the Senate included sponsorship of the pro-U.N. Global Poverty Act and co-sponsorship of the Jubilee Act. These two foreign aid spending measures alone would cost $920 billion to implement.
Obama also wants to pass several controversial U.N. treaties and says that he would consider joining the International Criminal Court, a U.N. institution that could prosecute American soldiers for “war crimes.” ....
Rice favors establishment of a Department of Defense “peacekeeping institute” so that U.S. soldiers can be trained for U.N. missions. She is also on record in support of “a rapidly deployable international civilian police force,” presumably under the control of the U.N.; favors a United Nations military force to intervene in the Darfur region of Sudan; and is a believer in the man-made global warming theory.
She wrote a 2006 article in The National Interest blaming the terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001, on living conditions in oil-rich Saudi Arabia. “For years, Saudi Arabia, home to several 9/11 hijackers, experienced rapidly declining GDP [Gross Domestic Product],” she said.
The article, “The Threat of Global Poverty,” urged “far greater U.S. action to reduce global poverty” and called for the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of Gross National Income on foreign aid, raising annual foreign aid spending by the U.S. to about $80 billion a year. This view was incorporated in Obama’s Global Poverty Act.
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Obama will push for that Carter era treaty that comes up from time to time in the Senate...that I can’t recall the name, it’s bad.
The One is a blithering idiot. Have our military under the control of the UN? Giving the UN Billions of our tax money? Just who the hell does he think he is. He won’t be a President, he’ll be a dictator.
Presiding over the globalist New Babel..
right on.... the UN.... the greatest gift to Africa
largely funded by the US
and more american money is going to be dumped into this assinine organization?
Better said this way: $.9+ Trillion.
Washington, D.C. has sent American down the tubes. Glad I was here during the time to know what freedom was like.
Obama’s $845 billion U.N. plan forwarded to U.S. Senate floor
‘Global Poverty Act’ to cost each citizen $2,500 or more
The U.S. Senate soon could debate whether you, your spouse and each of your children – as well as your in-laws, parents, grandparents, neighbors and everyone else in America – each will spend $2,500 or more to reduce poverty around the world.
The plan sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is estimated to cost the U.S. some $845 billion over the coming few years in an effort to raise the standard of living around the globe.
Barack Obama
S.2433 already has been approved in one form by the U.S. House of Representatives and now has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar for pending debate.
WND previously reported the proposal demands the president develop “and implement” a policy to “cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief” and other programs.
Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media has published a critique asserting that while the Global Poverty Act sounds nice, the adoption could “result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States” and would make levels of U.S. foreign aid spending “subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.”
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He said the legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product to foreign aid, which over 13 years, he said, would amount to $845 billion “over and above what the U.S. already spends.”
The plan passed the House in 2007 “because most members didn’t realize what was in it,” Kincaid reported. “Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require.”
A recent statement from Obama’s office noted the support offered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“With billions of people living on just dollars a day around the world, global poverty remains one of the greatest challenges and tragedies the international community faces,” Obama said. “It must be a priority of American foreign policy to commit to eliminating extreme poverty and ensuring every child has food, shelter, and clean drinking water. As we strive to rebuild America’s standing in the world, this important bill will demonstrate our promise and commitment to those in the developing world.
“Our commitment to the global economy must extend beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere,” he continued.
Another critic, however, has been commentator Glenn Beck, whose YouTube video critique can be seen here:
“Not one dime would go to fixing America,” the commentary said.
Obama has continued to lobby for such massive expenditures on his campaign stops. During an address as recently as last week, he said, “I’ll double our foreign assistance to $50 billion by 2012, and use it to support a stable future in failing states, and sustainable growth in Africa; to halve global poverty and to roll back disease.”
Beck and Kincaid pointed out that the plan not only commits the U.S. to the anti-poverty spending proposal, it also adopts for the U.S. the United Nations Millennium Development Goal, which includes a variety of treaties and protocols advocated by the U.N.
Objections have remained strong. Duane Lester, writing at the All American blogger, warned that the U.S. has yet to be able to win its own war on poverty.
“On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared “all-out war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States.” This “all-out war” would last through the presidencies of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. We have spent billions of dollars fighting this war, and what have we achieved?”
He continued, “Very little. In 1964, there were 36 million Americans living in poverty, or about 19 percent of the population. In the 40 years between 1964 and 2004: ... poverty never measured less than 11 percent of the population. In 1983, under President Reagan, poverty registered 15.2 percent; in 1993, at the beginning of Bill Clinton’s presidency, poverty was measured at 13.7 percent of the population. In 2004, under George W. Bush, a president often accused by the political Left as not caring about the poor, the poverty rate declined to 12.7 percent. Still, some 37 million Americans remain poor.”
Despite that performance, “Obama is ready to take the fight global,” said Lester.
“In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning ‘small arms and light weapons’ and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” he wrote.
Tom DeWeese at NewsWithViews said the plan “is very telling” about what Obama would do as president.
DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, warned the over-arching plan includes the ideals of consolidating all international agencies under the U.N., regulation by the U.N. of all corporate environmental issues, license fees charged by the U.N. to use air, water and natural resources, a restructuring that would give hand-picked non-governmental organizations huge influence, authorize a standing U.N. army and require registration of all arms
Obama’s crack foreign policy gurus are about to be smacked in the sides of their heads by cold hard reality in very short order.
can you imagine an armed insurgency here, against the government being quelled by the UN, c/w an Islamic UN leader???
I think they have forgotten what a bunch of guys with squirel guns can accomplish.
If US 2433 gets passed, it’s gonna do a lot more than just cost us money. Gun control, pharmaceutical companies and compliance with Kyoto will all fall under UN control.
I gave up screaming about this months ago....nobody seemed to care.
If this monstrosity passes, I will no longer give to support missionary work at my church. Much more will be forcibly taken from me, much less good will be done with it.
combine that with his proposed national internal security force which is to be larger than the army?
Zieg f/n Heil!
PING!!!
Maybe some more FReepers are starting to wake up.
He sure is making it easier to “Lock and Load”
But maybe that's what 0 has planned all along, that way he can have his personal civilian security force to quell the masses locally and let the UN goons handle the other matters for the U.S.. He's a dirty rotten globalist through and through and could care less about throwing our patriotic and brave military under his One worlder bus. How can this be stopped?
I agree with your post and as for your question, you need to expand it to read:
“How can this be stopped or is it too late?”
Thx for the ping, I was surprised to hear that the Bush Admin is calling for 20,000 US troops to serve/train civilian Leo’s in the US. I would have expected this from Obama. Looks like O’s proposed policies are being laid out quite nicely for him. In the mean time, I’m scratching my head.
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